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    the most widely admired houses in Paris, and it was bought by the Marquise de Pompadour on 24 December 1753 for 730,000 livres. Opponents showed their distaste...
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    Petite Cour Appartement du Commandant des Gardes du Corp Appartement d'une Dame d'honneur de la Reine Logement du premier Médecin de la Reine The parts...
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    worked there around 1662. Near 1695, Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan acquired the Château de Petit-Bourg. There, she realized important alteration...
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    surprises de l'Amour did not appear on disc until Sébastien d'Hérin's recording in 2013. The work was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour to celebrate...
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  • of rooms opening onto the jardin du roi was redecorated for the Marquise de Pompadour. Louis XVI effectively ignored the Grand Trianon; and, during the...
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    who became Louis XV's mistress, is better known to history as the Marquise de Pompadour. Foreign audiences were granted, including that of the Doge of Genoa...
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    mantel, intended for the Château de Saint-Hubert, was installed here in 1764 after the death of the Marquise de Pompadour, and embellished with rococo sculptures...
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